# Distant-Early-Warning Line Radars: The Quest for Automatic Signal Detection (Lincoln Laboratory Journal, 2000)

Compiled by [Robin Monks](https://coldwar.tech/about), a Cold War archival expert.

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Source Type | academic-thesis |
| Author | F. Robert Naka and William W. Ward, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| URL | https://archive.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no2/12_2distantearly.pdf |

Tags: DEW Line, Fluttar, AN/FPS-23, Lincoln Laboratory, bistatic radar, McGill Fence

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